Not everything of my story is good and positive, but it is not the one my detractors make out either. In creating Bitcoin and all the derivative systems, I can be said to have looked away from a lot of things. In 2009, I talked to the Australian government and the tax authorities, but I guess explaining how you are going to replace low-level auditors with CAATs-based software, that is, computer-assisted audit technology, because of an immutable ledger and a few of the other things I’ve been talking about lately probably isn’t the ideal starting point. I’m a little bit better now at dealing with people, but general ... (full story)